The drama that did deserve to win was Simon Gray’s The Late Middle Classes which, in its delicate treatment of the relationship between a 12-year-old boy and his platonically paedophile piano teacher, handles the subject of child abuse with all the moral responsibility that is so painfully lacking in Anna Weiss. But it couldn’t get [...]

He and the Orange Order prevailed at that first Drumcree, facing down the police by sheer strength of numbers and getting the march down the road. There are essentially two types of Unionist politician, those who are prepared to make a deal and those who want to make no deal Many used to place David [...]

Australian athletics great Ron Clarke said countryman Kevan Gosper disqualified himself from becoming the next International Olympic Committee chief because he backed an Olympic boycott in 1980. He’s the best and most exciting fighter I’ve ever worked with.”
Given the mood of the day, he was never likely to say anything less.. In Kentucky, though, the [...]

It would not have been surprising if spots or moles lurked there Bear with me. A CURIOUSLY underplayed aspect of Jeffrey Archer’s libel case is that he did not settle matters for once and all by volunteering to remove his shirt and display his back – spotty or otherwise – to the public gaze It [...]

This time, he contented himself with a Mazurka by Szymanowski, a Lyric Piece by Grieg and, in contrast with their robustness, Chopin’s exquisitely plaintive G sharp minor Mazurka.. The festive, concerto-like Prelude had frothy staccato in the right hand. The Allemande flickered with varied emphasis among its contrapuntal layers, while in the outer sections of [...]